"Christmas Soon" Is Now: JP, Chrissie
& the Fairground Boys Video Premiere
Huffington
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A few months back, I wrote about JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys, the first non-Pretenders music of Chrissie Hynde's long, storied rock career. Anyone who knows me or reads my posts is fully aware of my longstanding Chrissie crush. She was my first and will be my last.
That damn JP got to her before me and then had the nerve to write an insanely beautiful album about their unrequited May/December love, just to pour salt in the wound. Their debut, "Fidelity!," is easily one of the best albums -- and love stories -- of the year, my rock heroine crushes be damned.
Well, just to prove that I can be the bigger man, I'm happy to present the video debut of "Christmas Soon." Consider it my holiday gift to you and my Christmas wish that Chrissie will dump that JP kid soon and sit under the mistletoe with me. I make a mean vegan egg nog.
The
new song "Christmas Soon" is available now! Visit i-Tunes or
your digital service provider and grab this great song,
because Christmas is coming Soon!
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Favorite Album of 2010
Be one of 7 lucky winners to see JP, Chrissie, and The Fairground Boys live at the Esquire House
Los Angeles! JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys are back in Los Angeles and playing an exclusive event at the ultimate bachelor pad, The Esquire House, in the Hollywood Hills on Monday, October 25....
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Los Angeles: Would you like to see Chrissie Hynde's new band at the House of Blues on 10/25?
Rock legend Chrissie Hynde is bringing her new group, JP,
Chrissie, and the Fairground Boys, to the House of Blues on
the Sunset Strip, and you could be in the crowd for this 18+
show if you leave us a comment telling us why you are the
most deserving! Entries will be accepted until Sunday
evening (10/17), and we'll announce the winner HERE on
Wednesday of next week (10/20).
The Daily Telegraph - Love gone wrong
fuels Chrissie Hynde's new band
Chrissie Hynde is fed up with looking back. Fed up with answering questions about stuff she did in the 1970s and 80s; stuff she can't remember a lot about now anyway. "I just can't take it anymore," she says, looking – in her boots and skinny jeans, with that trademark choppy fringe – much the same as she did thirty years ago. "Know what I mean?" She narrows her kohl-rimmed eyes. "Enough!"
I'd only asked her a question about The Pretenders, the band she's fronted since their inception in 1978, right from early hits such as Brass in Pocket and Talk of the Town through drug-related deaths and line-up changes to their current incarnation.
Chicago Tribune - Love gone wrong
fuels Chrissie Hynde's new band
Chrissie Hynde and J.P. Jones began and ended their concert
at Park West Sunday evening serenading each other with songs
of thwarted desire.
"If you were my age," the 59-year-old Pretenders leader
cooed in her sultry alto at the start of the evening.
"You're the one I should have married," her 31 year-old
would-be paramour growled at the show's finale.
Love gone wrong has fueled countless song, but J.P.,
Chrissie and the Fairground Boys instead channeled the
passion of a love affair that they claim never happened into
fervent, ecstatic rock during a 75-minute set. The show drew
a small but enthralled crowd, nearly all of which ultimately
left their seats for the dance floor.
Chrissie Hynde’s love
life has fueled The
Pretenders since she
formed the group in
1978, and, now, a relationship
with Welsh singer/songwriter
JP Jones has inspired her to record outside
of the legendary band for the first
time. After meeting Jones, who is 28
years younger than Hynde, the two
quickly whisked off to Cuba and unexpectedly
came back with the majority
of Fidelity!
Concert Review: JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys at Tangier
If
you're reading this while eating some kind of meat product,
you mant to put it down for a second. If her new band's
vibrant performance in Akron last night was any indication,
Chrissie Hynde might be right about all that vegan stuff.
It's no surprise that the legendary Rubber City native (and
restauranteur) was able to pack the stylish wooden confines
of the Tangier as a member of JP, Chrissie and the
Fairground Boys without using the Pretenders name.
What was amazing is how quickly and completely she's
integrated herself into an all-new musical mindset, and how
worthy her new partners, particularly co-leader JP Jones,
proved to be of her time and talents.
Review: Jp, Chrissie and The Fairground Boys Live!
Thank You For Ruling, New York City!
New York City
September 25th, 2010
Under the lavish bright lights of the Marquee that read ‘Irving Plaza’ small black letters meekly spell out the name of tonight’s act. ‘Jp, Chrissie and The Fairground Boys’ loads of New Yorkers walk by unawares of that exactly is going to happen tonight as they do every night.
‘Jp, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys?’ A women swimming, inebriated, in her own inebriation questions out-loud to herself. ‘Never heard of em”
And that’s the classic New York City anonymity coming in to play. It’s not unbelievable but, somewhat odd to think that Chrissie Hynde who has fronted one of the most enduring rock bands, The Pretenders, for over 30 years could be looked over so easily BUT, that starts the first major appeal of this band.
The Wallstreet Journal - J.P., Chrissie & the Fairground Boys
Irving Plaza
17 Irving Pl., (212) 777-6800
Saturday
Chrissie is Chrissie Hynde, the extraordinary singer and
songwriter who fronts the Pretenders; J.P. is J.P. Jones, a
Welsh singer-songwriter and producer. The duo's new album,
"Fidelity!," is a brawny, straight-ahead collection of
driving rock and soaring ballads. Mr. Jones sounds
fine—there's a smidgen of Bono in his vocal delivery—and Ms.
Hynde's tremulous voice is one of rock's great instruments.
The familiar touchstones of her songwriting are present,
too, which means "Fidelity!" is at least intriguing and at
best (as on the duet "If You Let Me") a fine piece of work
that should provide an engine for a rousing live
performance.
Ticket Giveaway - Pittsburgh Music
Report
Former Prentenders Chrissie Hyde is bringing her new project
to Pittsburgh. JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys will be
playing at the New Hazlett Theater on Tuesday, 9/28. The
band just recently release their new album Fidelity! on
August 24th through their own La Mina Records in partnership
with Rocket Science Ventures. They will be playing with a
full band in Pittsburgh while some of their other only
includes the duo. We are happy to be giving away a pair of
tickets to the show. As usual just email us with your name
to
pghmusicreport@gmail.com . All entries must be received
by 9/25.
JP, Chrissie & Patrick LIVE acoustic performance and interview on CNN
Tune in to CNN Newsroom with Kyra Phillips (Domestic
Channel) THIS FRIDAY, September 17th between 9-10am EST. for
a LIVE acoustic performance and interview with JP, Chrissie
& Patrick.
Holy *$%, what an insane couple of weeks its been. Thanks to
all of you who have bought Fidelity! already. We're so
excited and proud of this album, and thrilled that people
can finally hear it for themselves. We've spent most of
today doing interviews for overseas outlets - radio in
Germany, some press in Australia, and gearing up for the
tour. We're going to be rehearsing for the next few weeks,
and then hit the road on our headlining tour on September 17
in Atlanta. We've played some shows already to get warmed up
with Lucinda Williams, who we love and admire and were
thrilled to play with.
Thanks for staying with us this far, and we'll check in
again soon.
Love JP & Chrissie
[Win This!] JP, Chrissie and The Fairground Boys : Fidelity! Giveaway
A few weeks back I was blathering on about JP, Chrissie and
The Fairground Boys, the new project from The Pretenders’
Chrissie Hynde and her new boy toy, Welsh singer-songwriter
JP Jones. Their debut record, the appropriately-named
Fidelity!, is available now, and it’s a doozy. This is
Hynde’s first time out of the garage without the Pretenders,
and stylistically it falls nicely between the snarling pub
rock of that band’s first two records, and the woolgathering
Americana that characterized the best numbers on Break Up
The Concrete.
(CNN) -- Chrissie Hynde is an intimidating presence. Maybe
it's her unflinching gaze and unapologetic swagger. Maybe
it's the fact that she's the iconic lead singer of the
Pretenders and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
"Not many guys come up to me," she admits matter of factly.
But someone did approach her nearly two years ago at a party
in London -- a little-known Welsh singer-songwriter named JP
Jones. They hit it off, flew to Cuba on a whim, holed up in
the Hotel Nacional and wrote a tell-all album about finding
your soul mate, but realizing your future together is
doomed. Hynde turns 59 soon. Jones is 32.
On August 23rd, be among the first to hear Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Welsh singer/songwriter JP Jones discuss their hotly-anticipated debut CD, Fidelity! (La Mina Records/Rocket Science Ventures), the day before its release. Before an intimate audience of 200 in the Museum's Clive Davis Theater, hear Hynde and Jones in conversation with Executive Director Robert Santelli about the inspiration, creative influences, and collaboration behind the new project. Following the interview, Hynde and Jones will take questions from the audience and, for one of the first times, perform a few songs from the album.
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Frank Sennett says in an August 7th review: "If Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Chrissie Hynde isn’t the biggest name to grace the Kidza stage, she’s damn close–competing only with Slash, Jeff Tweedy and Perry himself for the combo of wattage and cred.
The Pretenders leader came today with her latest band, JP, Chrissie + The Fairground Boys, formed with Welsh singer-songwriter JP Jones and touring behind their strong debut album, Fidelity!, which drops this month.
It’s an odd gig for Hynde and Jones, given that the album mines their experience as accidental soul mates who can’t have a family together because of the three decades between them. In fact, the album is named after the child they’ll never have. So playing for a bunch of families had to be a bit awkward for them.
They came out to by far the biggest Kidza ovation of the day, and sure enough, Hynde referenced the situation by saying, “Oh, you all have kids…”
But then they kicked into the rootsy material from the album and it was all good."
Tour dates, Video Premiere, Jimmy Fallon performance and more!
JP, Chrissie,
& The Fairground Boys have just confirmed a handful live performances supporting Lucinda Williams to celebrate the launch of their new album, Fidelity!, set for release on August 24th through their own La Mina Records in partnership with Rocket Science Ventures. These performances will feature the band as an acoustic trio -- JP Jones, Chrissie Hynde and Fairground Boys guitarist Patrick Murdoch – and will include an intimate concert at the Grammy Museum on August 23rd. A full-band U.S. tour will be announced in the coming weeks.
The album's first video, for the track, "If You Let Me," will make its worldwide debut on IFC, in the networks' "Automat" programming clock, and on IFC.com, on Tuesday, July 27. To view the video online, visit this specially designed web page: www.ifc.com/ifyouletme. The video, inspired by the critically acclaimed 2008 Swedish romantic horror film, Let The Right One In, was directed by Chris Marres Piliero (Black Keys, Eric Hutchinson) in Los Angeles in June.
* In addition, JP, Chrissie
& The Fairground Boys will turn late night tv upside down on August 11th when they perform their single "If You Let Me," (available on iTunes August 10th) backed by none other than the The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
* Hey New York! JP, Chrissie, & The Fairground Boys will play the Apple Store in SOHO, 103 Prince Street, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 10. Get there early to make sure you get in!
View all current tour dates...
* 7" Vinyl Limited Edition Single of "If You Let Me" available at your local independent music retailer NOW. Visit www.recordstoreday.com to find a store near you.
Get an autographed copy of Fidelity!
SPECIAL OFFER FROM
NEWBURYCOMICS.COM -- Pre-Order the upcoming release, Fidelity! by J.P., Chrissie
& The Fairground Boys and receive a limited* autographed CD booklet with purchase!
JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys Perform on NPR's World Cafe
The World Cafe will be broadcasting a special "Best of Non-Comm" compilation show, including music from JP, Chrissie And The Fairground Boys' live performance, on Friday, July 2nd, 2010.
National Public Radio's World Cafe with host David Dye can be heard on over 200 stations nationwide. Fans can find their local station at the following
Link by selecting a state from the pull-down menu:
...
or, worldwide, fans can connect to the WXPN Philadelphia stream Monday through Friday, 2pm to 4pm EST,
here.
'Fidelity' is near 'Perfect' - by Jim Farber
The most exciting unknown band in town features someone we all know well. J.P., Chrissie and the Fairground Boys has one very famous member, tipped off by her name: Chrissie Hynde, once and future leader of the Pretenders. While Hynde has collaborated with many musicians over the years — from Sinatra to Cher — never before has she recorded a full CD under any banner but the Pretenders'. Neither has she cut one that features another fully formed singer-songwriter. For the Fairground Boys, Hynde collaborated with J.P. Jones, a Welsh-born rocker half her age who owns a voice that sounds like Ian Dury swallowing sandpaper. That's a compliment incidentally, a good thing since it's his voice you hear before hers on the band's debut single, "If You Let Me."
The song won't be released until July. And the band's full debut, "Fidelity," won't come out until August. But the group plays a New York gig Wednesday, at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg, and you can hear both the single and four other new tracks from the album, cut live for radio station KRCW...
more...
Find
Fidelity! at your local independent record store.
The
new song "Christmas Soon" is available now! Visit i-Tunes or
your digital service provider and grab this great song,
because Christmas is coming Soon!
Chrissie Hynde is fed up with looking back. Fed up with answering questions about stuff she did in the 1970s and 80s; stuff she can't remember a lot about now anyway. "I just can't take it anymore," she says, looking – in her boots and skinny jeans, with that trademark choppy fringe – much the same as she did thirty years ago. "Know what I mean?" She narrows her kohl-rimmed eyes. "Enough!"
Chrissie Hynde’s love
life has fueled The
Pretenders since she
formed the group in
1978, and, now, a relationship
with Welsh singer/songwriter
JP Jones has inspired her to record outside
of the legendary band for the first
time. After meeting Jones, who is 28
years younger than Hynde, the two
quickly whisked off to Cuba and unexpectedly
came back with the majority
of Fidelity!
JP, Chrissie And The Fairground Boys latest performance on World cafe will be broadcast Oct 29th.
If
you're reading this while eating some kind of meat product,
you mant to put it down for a second. If her new band's
vibrant performance in Akron last night was any indication,
Chrissie Hynde might be right about all that vegan stuff.
On August 23rd, be among the first to hear Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde and Welsh singer/songwriter JP Jones discuss their hotly-anticipated debut CD, Fidelity! (La Mina Records/Rocket Science Ventures), the day before its release. Before an intimate audience of 200 in the Museum's Clive Davis Theater, hear Hynde and Jones in conversation with Executive Director Robert Santelli about the inspiration, creative influences, and collaboration behind the new project. Following the interview, Hynde and Jones will take questions from the audience and, for one of the first times, perform a few songs from the album.
"If You Let Me" is
Frank Sennett says in an August 7th review: "If Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Chrissie Hynde isn’t the biggest name to grace the Kidza stage, she’s damn close–competing only with Slash, Jeff Tweedy and Perry himself for the combo of wattage and cred.
JP, Chrissie,
& The Fairground Boys have just confirmed a handful live performances supporting Lucinda Williams to celebrate the launch of their new album, Fidelity!, set for release on August 24th through their own La Mina Records in partnership with Rocket Science Ventures. These performances will feature the band as an acoustic trio -- JP Jones, Chrissie Hynde and Fairground Boys guitarist Patrick Murdoch – and will include an intimate concert at the Grammy Museum on August 23rd. A full-band U.S. tour will be announced in the coming weeks.
The World Cafe will be broadcasting a special "Best of Non-Comm" compilation show, including music from JP, Chrissie And The Fairground Boys' live performance, on Friday, July 2nd, 2010.
